Add recipes for food handling level 7 and above about cataclysm-dda HOT 8 OPEN

A good reward for getting cooking to 9 or 10 might be to salvage scraps of (normal) meat from mutant meat through clever knife work, like how an expert chef can prepare fugu without killing anybody. At a huge loss of course.

For more mundane stuff, consomme, candy, and some notoriously difficult baked goods like souffle, croissants, and macarons would be good. Tonkatsu, pho, and mole are all pretty challenging irl. Demiglace sauce is also a huge pain, but sauces are sort of underwhelming right now.

Food irradiation could be changed to require very high cooking to ensure that the food is properly sterilized. Dry aged meat, ossobuco, bouillabaise, and more obscure methods of food preservation like salt-cured egg yolks and even something like hakarl could be options as well.

IRL hakarl is done to remove toxic ammonia from the greenland shark via fermentation, making an inedible animal safe(ish) to eat. So there's another idea for the mutant meat thing.

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I do really like the idea of high level cooking allowing you to take otherwise alien and possibly poisonous things and making them edible/less discusting. It would make sense as making michelin tier disces just isn´t something that is that useful in cataclysm type world. It would make much more sence that a experience wasteland chef would instead be able to make wierd things edible.

A example for a new level 7 dish might be:
Mutant stew:
Time: 4 hours.
¨By cutting out the parts that won´t soften in the pan and boiling the rest in a rich broth the meat almost has the texture of normal meat. With the addition of some beer or wine and heavy seasoning you don´t taste the meat either.¨

A survivor would baseicelly boil the meats for a long time to soften the meat and many of wierd bits in it. Cutting out the bits that won´t soften beforehand based on experience. Than use heavy seasoning and some alcoholic drinks to give the meat itself more flavor and overpower and residual bad taste.

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Also, some stuff like Tiramisu, Baked Alaska, & other extremely complex recipes. Maybe add a Gourmet chef profession?

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IF you want to have cooking recipes up to lvl 10 you'd probably have to adjust almost all recipes to stretch them out further. Sure, you can add one or two levels of really fancy (or just plain overly elaborate) stuff, but normal recipes would probably have to be stretched out.
However, note that skills are intended to eventually be very hard to master, with something like lvl 7 the level a player can expect to reach without starting expertise, and you don't want the really useful stuff to be put out of reach of a normal player.

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i don't really think it's an issue, almost all cooking recipes require pretty basic skills, and only michelin level would require that high skill - something that character may have, by being some extra class chef, but doesn't necessary means they will use it - cooking extra class dishes is extremely complicated when all world logistic died and can't deliver that much of ingredients anymore
No need to stretch the recipes requirements either - you do not need to be Gordon Ramsay to can some meat
Adding high level recipes is okay

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Culinary experiments can be added. That is, high-level recipes, the result of which is unusable (poisoned, infected, etc.). Require exotic ingredients and bring some experience.

For example, cook a fungaloid in its own juice. It's unlikely you'll find a ready-made recipe. But there's nothing stopping you from experimenting. From just frying, to more exotic cooking methods that include an array of chemicals.

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Hmm, a new start for michelin chef? A new starting mission: “cook them all”? Something along the lines of a list of recipes you have to cook, for completion.

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Hmm, a new start for michelin chef? A new starting mission: “cook them all”? Something along the lines of a list of recipes you have to cook, for completion.

"Delicious in Cataclysm" anyone?

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